Rise From Eight Hundred

As a mature soldier, at this moment, military affairs will be prioritized.

Completing the military orders of superiors is what a soldier should do.

But he is Lei Xiong.

A Chinese soldier with a passionate heart and courage.

Why did he defend the retreat of the entire army? For the lives of 30,000 brothers? No, not only that, what he defended was actually the determination of Chinese soldiers to defend their homeland.

Lei Xiong's home is still in the distant Shaanxi, a long distance away from the Japanese army.

However, watching his compatriots die wailing in the bombing of Japanese planes or even machine gun strafing, he would think, if one day, his son and his wife would be like this, what should he do.

Fight!

He is a Chinese soldier, and he should protect the Chinese people.

Even if the strength is not symmetrical.

Three anti-aircraft positions faced a formation of 12 Japanese bombers.

Don't think that having anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns can do anything to the Japanese bombers flying in the sky.

In terms of strength, the bomber formation with the advantages of high altitude and high speed naturally far exceeds the air defense force that is almost fixed on the ground.

In fact, it is not accurate to say that the 12 Japanese fighter planes hovering at high altitude are bombers. To be more precise, they should all be carrier-based fighters.

It is not that China and Japan can confuse bombers and fighters, but that the fighter planes that can take off from aircraft carriers are destined to be smaller fighter planes.

The main function of these fighter planes is not to attack and bomb the ground, but to seize air supremacy, so that larger land attack aircraft with more bombs can attack the ground.

It’s just that at this moment when they have completely occupied air supremacy, the Japanese carrier-based aircraft lost their air opponents, so they turned into small bombers with bombs.

The main fighter plane equipped by the Japanese Navy at this time was the Type 96 carrier-based aircraft, Japan's first all-metal single-wing fighter, with a length of 7.5 meters, a wingspan of 11 meters, a maximum speed of 430 kilometers per hour, and two 7.7 mm machine guns as main combat weapons. There are also hooks under the belly and wings, which can carry one 250 kg bomb and two 30 kg bombs when necessary.

To put it bluntly, the fleet hovering at an altitude of 1,500 meters and constantly bombing the refugee gathering places in the wilderness is a group of fighters that can be deployed in air combat at any time.

Once the mounted bombs are dropped, the twelve Japanese fighter planes can transform into the most handsome guys in the sky, flying freely in the sky at a speed of more than 400 kilometers per hour.

For the air defense positions on the ground, the Oerlikon machine guns that shoot up to 2,500 meters may still be a bit threatening to them, but the bullets of the Maxim heavy machine guns used in infantry combat may not even reach its exhaust.

High altitude and high speed are their biggest advantage on the ground.

Once the anti-aircraft positions opened fire, perhaps the Japanese fighter formations in the sky could raze the anti-aircraft positions to the ground with just the bombs they dropped, without having to engage in an air-to-ground battle with China's anti-aircraft guns.

Lei Xiong knew this better than anyone else.

But, we still have to fight!

Of course, we have to fight, but we can't just show our weapons and fight with swords and guns.

Fighting hard is to seek death.

There must be positions or valuable targets as bait to lure Japanese fighters down and lower their altitude to ensure the hit rate of the anti-aircraft positions.

The Japanese are a very dog-like nation. If you don't hurt them, they won't run away with their tails between their legs.

However, this also means that there must be terrible sacrifices for the positions.

Just like fishing, the fish is hooked, but the bait will be eaten.

The formation of twelve Japanese planes was divided into four groups, circling in the air for observation. Once they found people moving on the ground, they immediately drew an arc representing death in the air and dropped a 30-kilogram bomb.

The 30-kilogram bomb dropped from an altitude of 1,200 meters was no less powerful than a 305-caliber heavy artillery shell. Within a radius of 50 meters from the impact point, all people and animals were killed.

The refugees were all ordinary people, and they didn't know any military common sense. They were either scared to lie on the ground motionless, or ran around like headless flies on the ground, and plunged into the bushes when they saw them, thinking that they would be safe.

In the face of the air waves caused by the explosion and the violent vibrations on the ground, these were the most deadly.

A bomb could often take away the lives of dozens or even hundreds of people.

Lei Xiong knew that the Japanese planes did this not just for revenge, but they were also using bait, using the lives of Chinese civilians as bait to stimulate the hidden Chinese soldiers.

As long as they did nothing, they could only watch them wantonly hunt down the lives of Chinese civilians.

"Deputy Battalion Commander, position No. 1 requests to open fire!" Cheng Tieshou's voice came from the phone.

There was not only an infantry company left in the 43rd Army camp, but also a communications platoon and a medical team. Although Lieutenant General Guo decided to take most of the combat-capable soldiers to Songjiang for a decisive battle, he still couldn't bear to see the 43rd Army destroyed, so the military headquarters' direct communications platoon and medical team, which had little combat effectiveness, were all left behind.

Although the communications platoon's combat effectiveness was not good, it could set up a telephone, which saved Lei Xiong a lot of trouble. At least the communication between the positions around the bridge could be done by telephone instead of flares.

Inadvertently, Lei Xiong experienced the treatment that only a lieutenant general division commander could have this time.

The three main air defense positions and the two infantry positions deployed hundreds of meters away from the south bank of the bridge all had telephone communications.

The fire support platoon leader Cheng Tietsou is responsible for the No. 1 air defense position located on the south bank of the bridge.

His position was on a hill on the west side of the bridge. Around the hill, which was not too large, he deployed two Oerlikon machine guns and three Maxim heavy machine guns. He was also equipped with a Suloton. Twin machine guns and an MG34 machine gun.

There are field trenches built by two infantry platoons around the No. 1 air defense position. Once a large number of Japanese infantry attacks, the air defense position can instantly become a fire support position. Once the three anti-aircraft guns are leveled and fired, the three auxiliary A heavy machine gun and an MG43 with a high rate of fire can definitely become a nightmare for any light infantry.

It can be said that this No. 1 position facing the direction of Songjiang is the sharpest spear among all the positions currently under Lei Xiong's command.

Whether against the air or against the ground.

Once Position 1 is lost, Lei Xiong's air defense and ground firepower will be weakened by half.

Lei Xiong replied without hesitation: "No!"

His extremely anxious eyes passed over several cars parked in the woods five hundred meters away, and an idea came to his mind.

"Call me the number of Company Commander Zeng of the 67th Army in charge of this position!" Lei Xiong puffed up his cheeks and finally made a decision.

Erya, who has become Lei Xiong's communications soldier, quickly dialed the phone.

"Company Commander Zeng, the Japanese planes are now hovering at high altitude. I need to lure them to a thousand meters below. Therefore, I decided to use a convoy of three cars as bait, but each car must be empty. Every car must be empty." The car only needs one driver to drive towards the bridge. If the Japanese plane does not chase, then go to the bridge. "

There was silence on the other end of the phone.

In the original words Erya later wrote in his memoirs: Perhaps after following Commander Tang Dao for a long time, our brothers in the Sixing Battalion learned from him long-range sniping, how to lay booby traps, and how to deal with the enemy coldly, but they also learned how to Cruel.

Just like Commander Lei Xiong in the Battle of Baihe Port, he knew he would die, but still wanted to let people die.

His order was to let three brothers from the 67th Army and three trucks take the initiative to enter hell.

"I know this is a difficult decision, but we have no other choice. Either we die or watch the people die. Company Commander Zeng, this is not an order. This is just a request from me, Lei Xiong. You can refuse!" Lei Xiong! Xiong continued with firm eyes.

No one could hear the strangeness in his voice. Only Erya, who was closest to him, could see that his hands were clenched extremely tightly, and the veins were exposed.

Erya knew that when he cruelly used his comrades as bait for certain death, Commander Lei could not be as calm as he appeared on the surface.

. . . . . .

"Chief Lei said, this is not an order, just his request, but I think this is an order." The captain, who was located 700 meters away from the main position of the bridge, hung up the phone and was silent for ten seconds. Zhong summoned all the people he could muster.

"It's just that the person who issued this military order is not Commander Lei, but our compatriots. If we don't follow this military order, then they will sneer at us weaklings from the sky, just like we did in the Northeast six years ago It's the same as when the army surrendered the Northeast to the people.

Brothers, you say, what should we do? "

There was silence.

There was a loud noise of "Boom!"

A burst of gunpowder smoke rose in the distance, and the ground trembled slightly.

The Japanese plane dropped another bomb.

You don't need to look to know that dozens of lives have disappeared.

"Company commander, I'm one of them!" A sergeant strode out.

"And I!"

"I!"

Under the leadership of the sergeant, six or seven people walked out of the crowd at once.